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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force in 1994. It has a near-universal membership of 192 countries that have ratified the Convention and which collectively are called the Parties to the Convention. Since then, the annual climate conference of (…)
, by HAMOUCHENE Hamza, RABBANI Mouin
From 6-18 November 2022, the twenty-seventh United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) will convene in Sharm al-Shaikh, Egypt. Typically attended by numerous heads of state and government, these annual conferences are held to address the growing global climate emergency, (…)
, by KING Andrew
Our planet is undeniably in crisis and desperately needs COP27 to succeed. Without concrete action, we are condemning today’s children to a harsher future.
World leaders and climate experts are gathering for pivotal United Nations climate change talks in Egypt. Known as COP27, the conference (…)
, by CARRINGTON Damian
Key UN reports published in last two days warn urgent and collective action needed – as oil firms report astronomical profits
The climate crisis has reached a “really bleak moment”, one of the world’s leading climate scientists has said, after a slew of major reports laid bare how close the (…)
, by TRENBERTH Kevin
A climate scientist explains the forces as La Niña are behind the summer’s extreme downpours and dangerous heat waves, and why new locations will be at risk in the coming year.
There’s an old joke about the fellow who has his left foot in a bucket of ice water and the right in a bucket of hot (…)
, by ZHONG Raymond
A growing field called attribution science is helping researchers rapidly assess the links between global warming and weather disasters.
Pakistan began receiving abnormally heavy rain in mid-June, and, by late August, drenching downpours were declared a national emergency. The southern part (…)
, by HARVEY Fiona
Governments and businesses failing to change fast enough, says United in Science report, as weather gets increasingly extreme
The world’s chances of avoiding the worst ravages of climate breakdown are diminishing rapidly, as we enter “uncharted territory of destruction” through our failure to (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Global warming, extreme severity of drought in Europe, heat waves, snowball effect (or cascading reactions) among all these crisis factors... Risk of sudden changes in ocean circulation with incalculable consequences... This article addresses three points: the explanation of this incontestable (…)
, by CARRINGTON Damian
Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change
The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping points, according to a major study.
It shows five dangerous tipping points may already have been (…)
, by SPICER John
While official data is yet to be released, this year’s Mediterranean marine heatwave will likely have devastating ecological consequences.
The ocean sustains all life on our planet. It provides food to eat and oxygen to breathe, while playing a key role in moderating our climate. But marine (…)
, by DAVENPORT Frances
Storms brought fast, destructive flooding to the mountains of Virginia and Tennessee, just a few weeks after the Yellowstone River flooded.
Heavy rains set off flash flooding in the mountains of southwest Virginia and eastern Tennessee on July 12, 2022. Rivers quickly inundated homes and a (…)
, by MONBIOT George
The US supreme court is helping to destroy our climate. But it was a much smaller decision, closer to home, that was the final straw for me
It feels like the end game. In the US last week, the third perverse and highly partisan supreme court decision in a few days made American efforts to (…)
, by MALM Andreas
Andreas Malm is a Swedish ecosocialist activist and author of several books on fossil capital, global warming and the need to change the course of events initiated by the burning of fossil fuels over the last two centuries of capitalist development. The Jeunes Anticapitalistes (the youth branch (…)
, by BENTLEY Joanne, MEYER Andreas L. S., PIGOT Alex, TRISOS Christopher
Species will endure intolerable conditions long after the global average temperature stabilises.
The history of climate change is one of people slowly coming to terms with the truth. None but a small minority still question whether it’s real and caused by humans. Now most grapple with the (…)
, by ENGLAND Matthew, ORIHUELA-PINTO Bryam , TASCHETTO Andréa S.
Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that brings warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic. Our research, published today in Nature Climate Change, looks at the profound consequences to global climate if this Atlantic conveyor collapses entirely.
We (…)
, by CARDINALE Bradley J.
With the world losing species at an alarming rate, a conservation biologist explains how ideas about protecting biodiversity have evolved over the past 40 years.
Extinction is part of life on Earth. Through much of our planet’s history, species have been forming, evolving and eventually (…)
, by SHAY Nick
The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tropical storms into monster hurricanes.
It’s (…)
, by CARRINGTON Damian
The probability of one of the next five years surpassing the limit is now 50%, up from 20% in 2020.
The year the world breaches for the first time the 1.5C global heating limit set by international governments is fast approaching, a new forecast shows.
The probability of one of the next five (…)
, by THORNETT Alan
Alan Thornett argues that life on planet Earth is facing a perfect storm.
The precarious agreement from COP26 in Glasgow – which was barely enough to keep the goal of a 1.5°C maximum global temperature increase alive last year – is being overwhelmed by the fall-out from Putin’s brutal (…)
, by NEWBOLD Tim, OUTHWAITE Charlie
Speed read
• The world may be facing a devastating “hidden” collapse in insect species due to the twin threats of climate change and habitat loss.
• UCL’s Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research has carried out one of the largest-ever assessments of insect declines around the (…)
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